Tools for the computer-aided design of multigigahertz superconducting digital circuits

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-38

  Gaj, Kris ^b   Herr, Quentin P ^c   Adler, Victor ^d   Krasniewski, Andy ^a,e   Friedman, Eby G ^f   Feldman, Marc J ^f  

^a IEEE

^b George Mason University   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d SUN MICROSYSTEMS   (United States)

^e WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^f University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; OPTIMIZATION;

INDUCTANCE EXTRACTION; SUPERCONDUCTING DIGITAL CIRCUITS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 0032653090     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.763251     Document Type: Article

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